Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal, intransitive)To spend time with someone as a friend.

    John plans to pal around with Joe today.

  2. (broadly, informal, intransitive)To associate with someone, especially secretly or when viewed as objectionable; to fraternize.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Who does Tom pal around with?

    ruС кем Том дружит? — sharptoothed

Origin

From pal + around.

From pal + around.

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Forms

pals around, palling around, palled around, palled around
Base formpal around · to pal around
3rd person singularpals around
Present participlepalling around
Past simplepalled around
Past participlepalled around

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypal around
he, she, itpals around

Past simpleLesson

all personspalled around

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave palled around
he, she, ithas palled around

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pal around

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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